Bodies of Central Coast car crash victims identified

February 28, 2014

The San Luis Obispo County Sheriff’s Office has identified the two men who died in car crash in Paso Robles Wednesday afternoon as 26-year-old Jeremy Nathaniel Martin and 24-year-old Christopher Michael Medina.

Martin resided in Grover Beach, and Medina lived in Paso Robles. The two men died in a collision on Highway 46 near Union Road in Paso Robles. Their car crossed the path of a large pickup truck, which crushed Martin and Medina’s vehicle.

Toxicology reports on the two men are pending.

About an hour prior to the Paso Robles crash, a Nipomo man died in a collision on Highway 154 in Santa Barbara County.

Thirty-one-year-old Michael Okerblom was identified as the victim. Okerblom died in a head on collision.